Cargill Inc., the world’s biggest agricultural company, plans to provide more transparency on its supply chain to customers and climate-change wary consumers in response to global concerns over deforestation.
America’s largest privately-held company has created a “sustainability hub” that will work with farmers in high-risk areas involving the crops expansion for soybeans, cocoa, and palm oil, executives from the Minneapolis-based company said by telephone. Cargill is also looking at ways to improve human-rights issues through its business practices.
“We’ve done an assessment of our various high-risk supply chains and we’ve said ‘You know what? We want to make sure what ...